Happy Birthday To...

Mom & Baby Carl

    My momma, Millie.  

Fantastical lady, amazing cook, great advice giver, always supportive, intense, tamale maker, 60s/70s fashionista, marine, oakie & mariachi lover.

xxo

Zombie Day

    I'm going to start by saying Happy Zombie Jesus Day!  Given the theme of the day I do believe watching zombie movies while drinking some beer & coffee sounds in order and of course watch my boys play at 1.  But for right now I'm going to take the opportunity to pre-game my M'Fuckin Monday and introduce you to an amazing lil' band by the name of Dead Mans Bones.

  

Just by photo, how could you not be drawn in??

The band consists of Ryan Gosling his friend & the Silverlake Childrens Choir.  The first time I heard the way he sings and then the kids singing along, I was hooked.  Done.  Check.  Today it was just by lucky chance as I posted my status update that this song came on:

I would highly recommend listening to an actual copy of the song, but the clip was fun & I love those kids!  I'll also use the lead into saying you should see Blue Valentine if you haven't.  Incredible, uncomfortable, realistic & a dash of Ryan singing :x

    So lets see, heres some of what I may watch today & some of my all around favorite zombies:

• Night of the Living Dead (og) *
• Return of the Living Dead
• Evil Dead *
• Zombieland *
• Dead Snow *
• White Zombie *
• Shaun of the Dead
• 28 Days Later
• Dead Alive *
• Fido
• Day of the Dead (og)
• Dawn of the Dead (old & new)
• The Walking Dead
• Planet Terror
• Boy Eats Girl * ... but I'm going to start with:
• Deadgirl *

For your viewing pleasure I'd also like to share something with you that one of my best friends showed me a few years ago.  Its absolutely amazing and if you're not intrigued by mentalism prior to this, you should be after watching this video.  Its in 2 parts (thankfully someone uploaded and HQ verision) so make sure you watch them both because it is just fantastic.

Enjoy your zombie day!  Brains & Beer.

xxo

* - movies available on instant

Portland Bound...

   So I'm sitting at the airport in Sacramento, pretty buzzed/close to drunk and cannot wait to be on a plane again. I swear, if I could fly around on a plane for a living, I would do it. Fly passenger, not pilot because I simply couldn't handle that kind of responsibility.
    I had myself a "large" GB Hefenweizen because I saw that my flight was going to be delayed about 40 minutes, then it turns out the plain is delayed an hour and ONE minute "due to weather". Which means I'm ecstatic about the snow that I'm going to be flying into.

photo from this morning in Portland via Shan.

   Time to board. Fuckin YAY!!!

xxo

He only liked me for my game..

Hard to tell from just a simple photograph, but had I some boobs this kid would have been nestled in them for a solid 10 minutes.  As I played some Angry Birds, he went in for the lean and damn near messed up my perfect score with his big dome covering the screen.  Because my eldest sibling wanted a photo after I had placed the phone down, I picked the phone back up to pose and little man leaned right back in in record time.

The joy of being a kid and not caring if you're invading personal space.

xxo

Hallmark.

Hallmark Holiday is just 'round the corner.

    With that, I am currently finishing up yet another pink item to put in my shop. Due to this "holiday" approaching, I've been trying to make things in shades of pink and purple along with brainstorming more little monstrosities to make. Also trying to actually get through my instant queue, I've been putting that off because I have somewhere around 20 foreign flicks, which I can't very well watch when I'm crocheting.

    Anyways, I've slacked on my blog for the past week and I'm not proud of it. I've just been distracted with editing photos and going to see my lil b, started a blog for my bestests wedding-to-be, then made the journey home. Excuses, excuses but legitimate ones me thinks. So there will be lots of coffee in my near future and also a dark chocolate bacon bar that the wife bought me that I've been holding on to like its the last one in existence for the past 4 months :x Candy hoarder!!!

Bacon Lovers, Treat Yourself!

xxo

Gonna lose my voice. Seriously.

Lake Bled.

Dan:

its a quaint little town
it was like a fairy tale
and its sooo quiet at night
there is this little bar that overlooks the lake
me and paul went to with these 2 other kids we met in our hostel
and when we got there there was a family of 4
all muscians
2 daughters dad and mom
the dad was playing acoustic and singing and his daughter would join in
so we sat there with beers and just listened to them alll night
it was awesome

So Long January...

    I think I'm going to do a resolution per month. Sounds fun and so far I've accomplished my "resolution" for January. If I choose to continue the resolution throughout the year, hot damn!! I'll complete 12 resolutions.

    So for January, I pretty much wanted to take it easy. Not be stressed, not let things get to me as easily as I normally do. Don't be bothered with the little things, take a second to cool off before getting all crazy. I think I can say I pretty much did just that, minus the 4-5 days I had minor "spells" around the 20th, but I still managed to use it for motivation.

    I had a bitchen birthday. The wife took me to SF to wander about and have drinks and be merry. That is exactly what we did. We parked in the TL (which we both have concluded is NOT that bad, just don't talk to the homeless) and hoofed it down to see Alex at Apple, then back to the TL to pay off the rest (or so we thought) of the meter time. Then on our merry ways to a pub Alex had told us about. Ordered myself some Jameson, and the wife a Guinness & portobello mushroom burger. We had a grand lil time chatting, then I got a lovely surprise when PB (Dan, for those who don't know him by my given nickname) called me to wish me happy birthday, "I hear it's your birthday. You're what? *pause* 22" hahah. Love that kid. Then after a couple or 3 more Jameson, we made friends with Giovanni and his friend Sean. Awesomely nice dudes. After about 20 minutes, Sean and Erika leave to go get me something. "If the bar sings to her, will it embarrass her?" "Yes" "Lets go, I ordered something". So's I chat with Gio and loose track of what had been previously talked about, then I hear it... "Happy Birthday...", the whole pub of random people. "God, that's really embarrasing" I think, then remember "SHIT! It's MY birthday". I swing around and there's Erika holding a big cupcake with a HUGE candle in it and Sean orchestrating the bar in song. I laugh, cover my face, blow out the candle and bow to applause. I hear the story of "they had no candles, so Sean took one out of a candelabra" and "I hope you like calamari, because I ordered you some." Amazing!!! So we 4 work on the cupcake which is outrageously good and rich and full of yum (and found out later, was from Buca Di Beppo, look out!) Then Sean and Gio say "O.K. Time to go, we're taking you girls ice skating! It's your birthday, you gotta do something fun!!!" We're stoked, all full of liquor and cupcake and we all head to the ice skating rink. It had been such a good night thus far, I wasn't even upset when there was a kids hockey league practicing and we could only watch and eat the calamari.
    After all of this excitement, the boys offer to walk us toward the car and we're again, on our merry way. All comes to a halt when we get to "the car" and its not our car. We'd been towed! It was a tow away zone (sign we had not seen) and we were without vehicle. Sean is kind enough to help the wife get a hold of the people and give us directions to the impound. We all say our goodbyes (in front of Whiskey Thieves, so sad we didn't make it in), and we head out because we have about 40 minutes before the impound fee goes up.

    Really long story so far, but it was an adventure of a night, so deal... We get the car, head back to the valley and meet up with Chelle at Wingstop. Only it's not just Chelle. It's Chelle, Brandon, Suzy, Michael, Gabe, Crystal & 2 friends. I get hugs and multiple birthday beers & a sweet dinosaur bag w/ a HP shirt in it from Suzy <3 After a bit, we all part and I head to Vierra's with Gabe, singing Lil Wayne the whole way. We arrive to a handful of Happy Birthdays and a few glasses of birthday Jameson.

    Night ended when I saw Danny and got hugs and had to do the unthinkable. Call the mom for a ride because I had no car and everyone was drunk. Well, everyone that was drunk, met my mom and she invited them over for dinner sometime soon (my mom loves cooking for people).

Gotta say, good day, good night, good people!

    That pretty much summed up the "epic" part of January. I also got invited to work at a craft fair and had an interview and am looking into the SF move (possibly), along with a handful of orders I've been busy with.

    Sooooooooooo... fare-thee-well, January
and let's do this up right, February!!


love, reggie

    some interesting fashion choices in the last week...

1. Thakoon is the newest designer to hit Target, i am THRILLED and want EVERYTHING!!!
2. I realized I don't care about patterns yesterday when trying stuff on at AE. Striped undies, argyle socks, pink plaid thermal... oh yes
3. NYE, I rocked my lovely silk BR dress, and for a brief second this amazing shower cap.

    Last night the cats crawled up on me an watched a movie w/ me for a bit before I paaaaaassed out.
    Woke up, got Spencer ready for his ride by 730, sent Felix off to the bus at 805, an sweet talked Charlie outta bed to take him to preschool.  The mini van isn't so bad, drives nice, an kicks ass when you find the
Depeche Mode cd, woop!  As for this very moment, my little tour guide helped me find a coffee shop and we're having a bagel for lunch :D

    Day 1 on my own... Spencer n Felix were at school all day, Charlie an I watched movies.  Then they got home, did hw, then we ran around an played like we were Mad Eye Moody before swimming practice.  I read, and Charlie watched Spongebob w/ the lil neighbor girl on iPod... then home, dinner, Harry Potter, medicine, brush those teeth, read stories and off to bed :]
    I almost drown in the huge tub, so cool!!

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xmas cards!

I made about 20, and here's my favorites